I said, ‘What is different about what I’m doing now from what I’ve been doing for years as a distiller?’ But the PR people said we were losing out because everyone else had one, so I finally gave in. Four…

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By dint of careful application, I learned to like it. Sir Winston Churchill, speaking of his early life in India and South Africa

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. P.J. O’Rourke, journalist, writer and humorist